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Increasing the number of bilingual health care professionals as well as resources at the community level could help Latino seniors thrive.

Researchers calculate that more than 46,000 children have lost one or both parents to COVID since February 2020.

Coffee drinkers appear to have a 49% lower risk of dying of chronic liver disease.

Eight immigration advocate groups urge ICE to release transgender and HIV-positive asylum seekers.

A new study has found that far more ancient Britons developed cancer than previously believed.

Consuming excessive amounts of processed meat weekly raises the risk for heart disease by 46% and death by 51%.

Coronavirus killed more Americans in the past year than any cause of death in 2019, other than heart disease and cancer.

Latinas with lupus have a greater mortality risk than Latinas without the disease.

Heart disease death rates are up among women under age 65.

Researchers theorize that respiratory problems may be to blame when a woman’s heart suddenly stops beating in the nighttime.

But American Indians and Alaska Natives saw the sharpest increase in deaths involving methamphetamines. Here’s a possible solution.

The death rate spiked right after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Estimates show that more than 300,000 people died of COVID-19 in 2020.

COVID-19 has overwhelmed morgues, funeral homes and religious leaders, required ingenuity and even changed the rituals of honoring the dead.

At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.

About 70% of employees who contracted the coronavirus in these work settings were Hispanic.